Harvested

[Palehorse]

Earl Weaver  HARVESTED @ 82

[Palehorse]

Stan Musial  HARVESTED @ 92

[Palehorse]

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know?

Socrates (BC 469-BC 399)

[Palehorse]

I see Burt Reynolds is in ICU with complication from the flu. . . He may very well end up here. . . 

[Palehorse]

 Aaron Swartz    HARVESTED @ 26. Winter wheat.

[Henry Hawk]

Former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch - - HARVESTED!!...(it doesn't have the same dramatic affect as ...Ed Koch....DEAD!)...but, anyway, the ol dude is now  HARVESTED at the age of 88.

[Locutus]

Pause for a minute to remember these seven individuals who were harvested one decade ago today on STS-107 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

• David M. Brown
• Rick Husband
• Laurel Clark
• Kalpana Chawla
• Michael P. Anderson
• William C. McCool
• Ilan Ramon

[Locutus]

Former first dog Barney Bush -- HARVESTED at 12 years old.

[Sandy Eggo]

[libby]

 

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe

(A dear old friend and I used to talk about such things -- actually he more humored me by mostly listening -- and when he died and I stood alone by his grave, I had the very distinct feeling, for a few seconds, that he was still there in spirit -- still listening.)

[Palehorse]

Etch A Sketch creator French electrician Andre Cassagnes  HARVESTED @ 86

(You had one. You know you did!)

[Locutus]

I had one! 

[Palehorse]

I had one! 

Me too!

[followsthewolf]

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Edgar Allan Poe

(A dear old friend and I used to talk about such things -- actually he more humored me by mostly listening -- and when he died and I stood alone by his grave, I had the very distinct feeling, for a few seconds, that he was still there in spirit -- still listening.)

I was very surprised to see that someone else has read Poe's poetry (besides "The Raven").

[Locutus]

Me too!

So did Mitt Romney.